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The miracle of St Cuthbert's incorrupt corpse has been the subject
of much fascination since his death over thirteen-hundred years
ago, inspiring pilgrims, monks, and even the construction of Durham
Cathedral itself. Throughout the centuries, Cuthbert's coffin has
been opened on six occasions. For the first time, accounts of these
openings have been brought together in a single volume, providing a
unique history of the saint from his death to the present day.
Including details of his death and burial, the moment when monks
first discovered his remains to be incorrupt, and the most recent
exhumation of his relics in 1899, David Willem brings alive the
mystery and intrigue of the life of Cuthbert's corpse, and tries to
answer questions such as, "When did the corpse decay?" and, "Is
Cuthbert still buried in Durham Cathedral?" "Elegant, accessible,
and movingly written." - Giles E. M. Gasper, Associate Director,
Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Durham University
"In Christian traditions, curiosity, piety, and awe almost
inevitably frame that sensed affinity our own embodiment finds with
holy bodies. St Cuthbert's body is no exception as this book shows
in tracing varieties of hope, faith, and experience down the
Christian centuries." - Prof. Douglas J. Davies, Director, Centre
for Death and Life Studies, Durham University About the Author
David Willem is the author of Kicking: Following the Fans to the
Orient and a former correspondent for The Guardian and The Times.
Black Rood tells the fascinating story of one of Scotland's oldest
and most significant crown jewels. Once as famous as the Stone of
Scone, the Black Rood was a gold and jewel-studded reliquary for a
piece of the True Cross. This profound and holy treasure was
smuggled into Scotland after the Norman invasion by the sister of
the last Anglo-Saxon king of England. On her marriage to King
Malcolm III, the Black Rood passed into the Scottish royal family,
and so became a symbol of the authority and legitimacy of
Scotland's kingship. Giving its name to the abbey and then the
palace and now the parliament of Holyrood, the Black Rood was to
help define Scotland as a kingdom which was at least the equal of
England in the eyes of God, and in some ways superior to it. David
Willem tells the story of the Black Rood though the lives of the
kings and queens of Scotland and England who honoured it, treasured
it, enacted themselves through it, fought over it, and who
sometimes died clutching it, so creating a history in vivid human
detail that ranges over a thousand years of Scottish and English
history. At the same time, the author tells the story of two other
similar reliquaries of the True Cross - the Croes Gneth of Wales
and Ireland's Cross of Cong. Like the Black Rood, these Irish and
Welsh crown jewels helped define the autonomy and independence of
their nations, and both were to follow similar trajectories through
time. The book ends with the mystery of what happened to the Black
Rood, and explores the possibility that, like the Cross of Cong, it
might still exist and be waiting to be found. Together these
stories create a new and compelling perspective on the
relationships between Scotland, England, Wales and Ireland, just
when those relationships are changing again for the first time in
hundreds of years.
Magisterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Germanistik -
Semiotik, Pragmatik, Semantik, Note: 1,0, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum,
33 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Anmerkungen:
Erstgutachter: Die Arbeit ist sowohl hinsichtlich ihrer
theoretischen Grundlegung wie auch hinsichtlich der empirischen
Umsetzung hervorragend. Auch wenn der Verfasser zwei grundlegende
Thesen seines Lehrers aufgreift, so geht seine Studie bezuglich
ihrer Differenziertheit und ihrer materiellen Genauigkeit weit
daruber hinaus und birgt genugend Potenz fur die Ausbau zu einer
Dissertation., Abstract: Was 'n Wetterchen ruft ein Madchen
begeistert. Ja, wunderbar erwidert ihre Freundin, wahrend sie ein
Fadchen von ihrem neuen Rockchen zupft. Sie sitzen auf einer
Terrasse in der Sonne. Unter den Holztischchen tummeln sich
Spatzchen. Trinken wir noch ein Weinchen? Die beiden Blondchen
schauen sich schelmisch an. Warum nicht, ein Stundchen haben wir ja
noch. Am Tischchen nebenan sitzt ein altes Mutterchen, das die
Kellnerin mit der Anrede 'Fraulein' herbeiruft. Die Madels
schmunzeln. Nachdem sie nochmal bestellt haben, tauschen die beiden
Anekdotchen uber die Sommerferien aus. In einem Buchlein zeigt das
eine Madchen, wie putzig das franzosische Dorfchen war, in dem sie
mit ihren Eltern Urlaub gemacht hat. Dann steht eins der Madchen
auf. Na, wollen wir mal fahren? Wie fahren? Du hast doch getrunken
Ach, das waren doch nur zwei Glaschen Naja, okay. Aber wenn's ein
Knollchen gibt, zahl ich nicht mit "1 Im oben stehenden Text haben
die kursiven Worter eins gemeinsam: sie werden in der Linguistik
als 'Diminutive' bezeichnet. Als deutsches Wort dafur tritt - vor
allem umgangssprachlich - 'Verkleinerungswort/-worter' auf. Schon
ein fluchtiger Blick auf die kursiven Worter genugt jedoch um zu
erkennen, dass es sich keineswegs in allen Fallen um blosse
Verkleinerungen handelt. Nur bei Fadchen und (Holz-)tischchen
liegen eindeutig Verkleinerungen vor, in einigen Fal
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